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PROFILE of two new books. Available Free Online.
SYSTEMS [the book] Six authors including author and editor Dr. Ross Baker announce that . . .
On October 15, 2008, Longwoods will launch the book Systems (full title: High Performing Healthcare Systems || Delivering Quality by Design) Made possible by a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the project team visited seven systems around the world that met their criteria – attributes that range from equity to efficiency.
If you would like an electronic copy of the book we will send you one on October 16, 2008. Free. Please click here to order.
. . . and this just in
“Perhaps, I wondered, by looking at the nature and structure of games, I could gain valuable insights about my own life and how to live it.” From: “Unlearning.” A new book by Dr. Alejandro R. Jadad. Click on the link and learn more ... including access to free digital copies.
They will be joining our other corporate members: 3M Healthcare, Accenture, AGFA, Baxter, Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG), Cerner, CGI, Courtyard Group, Clarity Healthcare-Consulting Cadre, Emergis, HayGroup, HP Canada, Healthtech, IBM, Johnson and Johnson Medical Products, Medtronic, McKesson Canada, Microsoft, Pharmacy.ca, Philips Healthcare, Ray & Berndtson, Roche, SAS, Strata Health.
The Longwoods HealthcareBoard members enable us to present new ideas, policies and best practices essential to healthcare management, practice, education, research and motivation. It is a measure of their support for learning. In return Longwoods creates opportunities for our corporate partners to showcase their products and systems in our journals and on our website and opportunities for corporate representatives to meet key clients and prospective clients.
For information on becoming a member contact Matthew Hart
PATIENT SAFETY PAPERS - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | DEADLINE NOVEMBER 07, 2008
Healthcare Quarterly, in collaboration with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and other national sponsors, is pleased to announce a fourth issue of Patient Safety Papers for publication in Spring 2009. This follow up to the first three issues will again provide real-time overviews of patient safety initiatives from the field and research projects on important patient safety topics.
Guest Editor, Professor G. Ross Baker, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto invites organizations and/or individuals to submit papers and case studies with a particular emphasis on contributions that highlight Canadian or comparative efforts to measure or improve patient safety. Descriptions of demonstration projects and interventions would be welcomed along with strategies for engaging patients and clients in improving safety.
Please submit abstracts or summaries of no more than 200 words to Dianne Foster Kent, Editorial Director, Longwoods Publishing, no later than Friday, November 7, 2008. Submissions will be reviewed by the editorial team and a selection of authors will be invited to prepare full manuscripts for publication.
This issue of the journal Electronic Healthcare:Vol. 1 No. 1 2001 is made available at no charge courtesy of Accenture. For the editorial by Dr. Michael Guerriere, click here: The Editor's Focus: It's Leaving Here Just Fine. Other authors include: William Pascal, Tom W. Noseworthy, John A. McAllister and Dan Bader, Carla Gregor, Brian Gamble, Camille Orridge, Pat Rich, George Blake, Denis Protti and KLAS. Read the complete issue online, download and save the papers, send them to colleagues. Effective until midnight October 28, 2008.
This issue of the journal Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé:Vol. 1 No. 2 2006 is available at no charge courtesy of CIHR. For the editorial by Dr. Brian Hutcheson, click here: Researchers' Role in Policy Decision-Making: Purveyors of Evidence, Purveyors of Ideas? Other authors include: John N. Lavis, Huw T.O. Davies, Russell L. Gruen, Kieran Walshe, Cynthia M. Farquhar; Robert G. Evans; Trisha Greenhalgh, Jill Russell; Catherine Pope, Nicholas Mays, Jennie Popay; Rick Roger; Jonathan Lomas; John N. Lavis; Aleksandra Jokovic, Jennifer Frood, Kira Leeb; Anton Hart; Marjorie MacDonald, Sandra Regan, Heather Davidson, Rita Schreiber, Jane Crickmore, Lesley Moss, Janet Pinelli, Bernadette Pauly; Mark Crawford; Claudia Sanmartin and Nancy Ross; Kyle Whitfield, Susan Wismer; Sanober S. Motiwala, Shamali Gupta, Meredith B. Lilly, Wendy J. Ungar, Peter C. Coyte. Read the complete issue online, download and save the papers, send them to colleagues. Effective until midnight October 28, 2008.
SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Près de 400 nouveaux médicaments prescrits pour consommation humaine sont arrivés sur le marché canadien en 2006.
Healthcare Quarterly
On the Journey to a Culture of Patient Safety
Barbara Tiessen
HealthcarePapers
Measure for Measure? The Challenge of New Thinking about Patient Safety
Samuel B. Sheps
Nursing Leadership
Reorganizing Nursing Work on Surgical Units: A Time-and-Motion Study
France Desjardins, Linda Cardinal, Eric Belzile, Jane McCusker
Healthcare Policy
Access without Appropriateness: Chicken Little in Charge?
Raisa B. Deber
Electronic Healthcare
Saving Ontario Healthcare Dollars through E-health Standardization: A Quantitative Study
Yaron Derman, Simon La, Jingping Ji, Natalia Lizon and Anthony Kung
World Health and Population
Health-Seeking Behaviour of People with Arsenicosis in Rural Bangladesh
Bimal Kanti Paul
Breakfast With The Chiefs: Improving Access - The Governance Challenges
Dr. Alan Hudson
September 16th, 2008. Dr. Alan Hudson is Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Listen Here. Running time: 42:22 minutes.
Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners too. For criteria and specifications please contact Lina Lopez at LLopez@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance.
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2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – Toronto
Matt Anderson, CEO - Toronto Central LHIN
Topic: A View from a LHIN.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Cerner, CGI, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, IBM, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Register here
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – Toronto
Vivek Goel
Vivek Goel is President and CEO of the Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Topic: Renewing Public Health in Ontario: The Role of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HP Canada, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Register here
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Toronto
Murray T. Martin, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
Cliff Nordal, President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, IBM, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Vancouver
Murray T. Martin, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
Cliff Nordal, President and CEO, London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, ON
Topic: Let's settle the private/public hospital debate: A Conversation reflecting on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Vancouver,UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, Campus Level, HSBC Hall, C680
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, HP Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Toronto
Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group
Topic: 2009 Review of IM/IT in Healthcare: The Unvarnished Version
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Courtyard Group, HP Canada, Ontario Hospital Association
Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs (dates TBD) Ida Goodreau, President and CEO for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division.
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.
Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Matthew Anderson - then Vice-President, Chief Information Officer, UHN and Toronto Community Care Access Centre.
IT Collaboration Report (PDF).
Sponsors: Accenture, ACAHO, Dell Canada, Lanier Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, Roche, and TELUS
The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs: registration requirements:
Do you work at a publicly funded organization? If so, you must hold a current personal subscription for at least one Longwoods journal. This covers attendance for the full season. This year’s speakers include: Dr. Alan Hudson, Matthew Anderson, Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Dr. Ross Baker, Dr. Vivek Goel, Dr. Michael Guerriere, Ida Goudreau, Cliff Nordal, Murray Martin and Dr. Mary Ferguson-Pare. If you are not a subscriber click here first. If you are a subscriber go to this page for information on upcoming dates: click here.
Registrants from private sector organizations, foundations and associations must be registered members of the Longwoods HealthcareBoard. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com
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With its theme, Inspiring Ideas and Innovation, HealthAchieve2008 is Canada’s largest health care show, attracting thousands of hospital leaders and health care professionals from across the country. This year, HealthAchieve will be held November 3, 4 & 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Featuring keynote addresses from the Rt. Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Uwe Reinhardt and Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthAchieve2008 promises to be a truly inspiring event! For further information, visit www.healthachieve.com.
October 14- 18, 2008: Toronto, ON. Dorothy Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute. The 15th offering of the award winning residential Nursing Leadership Development Program at the Institute for Learning with Keynote Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Rick Lash of the HayGroup. Limited Registration. Details, Brochure and Registration www.dwnli.ca or Contact Katrin Wade (416) 426-7229.October 17, 2008: Toronto, ON. A public celebration of the life of Dr. Sheela Basrur at Convocation Hall, 31 King's College Circle, Rm 122, Toronto, ON from 4-5:30 p.m. On behalf of the family and friends of Dr. Sheela Basrur and the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, we would like to notify you of two special events that will be taking place this fall to celebrate her life and legacy. For information click here.
October 19-21, 2008: Vancouver BC. Innovation in HealthCare: Passion to Progress. Leaders from all areas of health care and related industries will attend this two-day conference focusing on leadership, systems change and sustainable outcomes. Confirmed to speak are, Hon.George Abbott, Dr. Richard Heinzl, Roger Martin, Tod Maffin, Stan Davis, Jeremy Gutsche and Rex Murphy. For more information, click here.
October 20, 2008: Richmond Hill, ON. Look Globally - Act Locally: Integrating Care in the Community for Vulnerable Populations.The Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community and OCSA will feature top speakers from Canada and Europe to learn more about what works, what does not, and what needs to be done at the local level to implement successful integrated client care initiatives. For more information click here.
October 20-21, 2008: Toronto, ON. 2008 CIHR Health Information Summit – Data, Data, Everywhere: Access and Accountability. Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in an international event that will bring together leading researchers, decision makers and other key stakeholders for a two-day Summit focusing on enhancing access to health information for research that supports evidence-informed decisions that improve the health of Canadians and their health system. Click here.
October 24, 2008: Ottawa,ON. First Annual EHL Leadership Symposium. Join Emerging Health Leaders for a half-day knowledge and networking symposium. The event targets young health professionals from a variety of health backgrounds including administration, research, policy, government, and practicing clinicians. Our focus will be leadership through an interprofessional and values-based lens with a keynote presentation and three concurrent workshops. For more information click here.
November 10-14, 2008: Toronto, ON. Health Leaders Institute. The 4th annual offering of this inter-professional residential leadership development program with keynote by Dr Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Rick Lash of the HayGroup. Limited Registration. Details, Brochure and Registration www.healthleaders.ca. or Contact Katrin Wade (416) 426-7229.
November 13, 2008: Toronto, ON. Healthcare Information Security Symposium – Incident Response and Data Forensics. We invite you to join us for breakfast and discussion - our topics are “Incident Response Horror Stories” and “Data Forensics; What You Need to Know” Our speakers are Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-Founder of eSentire, and Larry Gagnon, Principal, of Forensicom. This event will run from 7:15am to 10:00am. For more information click here.
November 27, 2008: Toronto, ON. A evening fundraising reception at the Carlu to raise support and awareness of the public health outreach program to be created at the Sheela Basrur Centre. For information click here.
November 27-29, 2008: Toronto, ON. Family Medicine Forum. Canada’s largest family medicine conference. Co-hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) and the CFPC’s Sections of Teachers and Researchers. For conference program and registration click here.
February 19-22, 2009: Victoria, BC. Revolutionizing Healthcare with Informatics: From Research to Practice. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2008. For details click here.
March 19 - 20, 2009: Edmonton, AB. Leaders in Rehabilitation: the Rehabilitation of Function, Alberta Health Services, in the Edmonton and Calgary areas and the University of Alberta - Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine are pleased to announce the 4th Leaders in Rehabilitation conference. Speakers and special guests include Mr. Alan Lilly, Dr. Mike Landry, Dr. Peter Rosenbaum, Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell and Dr. Arya Sharma. For details click here.
For our complete list of conferences and events go here.
Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences.
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